Keegan keeping his chin up

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THE SEASONS COME AND GO, THE faces change with ever increasing rapidity, so thank goodness for football’s great invariables, the things upon which we can depend — take Kevin Keegan, for example. Just as it appeared that last season’s disastrous experiment in hyperbole and fortune telling — “a top six finish” was Keegan’s brash prediction before a painful, prolonged flirtation with relegation — had taught him something of the art of football diplomacy, here comes Keegan on the opening day of a new campaign talking of, and up, Shaun Wright-Phillips.